Carnahan: 'There’s no way you can dress up that record even with a lot of lipstick'

By Ben Smith

09/09/08 03:09 PM EDT

No letting up on Palin today, as she emerges as a strength of the ticket and delivers some of McCain's sharpest attacks on Obama.

Introducing Joe Biden as "one of the foremost experts in foreign affairs in the country" in St. Louis just now, my colleague Victoria McGrane reports, Rep. Russ Carnahan also took a swipe at Palin.

“For all his tough talk [McCain] buckled to the right wing of his party in his choice. Picked someone with zero experience in national government, zero experience in foreign affairs. There’s no way you can dress up that record, even with a lot of lipstick," he said.

"There’s no way you can dress up that record even with a lot of lipstick," he said.

UPDATE: “Sarah Palin’s maverick record of reform doesn’t need any ‘dressing up,’ but the Obama campaign’s condescending commentary deserves some dressing down. While John McCain and Sarah Palin continue to press their message of change, Biden and his buddies should stop these sorts of old-style attacks," says RNC spokeswoman Amber Wilkerson.